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The far side of the Moon provides a good environment for radio astronomy as interferences from the Earth are blocked by the Moon. In February 2020, Chinese astronomers reported, for the first time, a high-resolution image of a lunar ejecta sequence, as well as direct analysis of its internal architecture.
Because the Moon continuously blocks the view of a half-degree-wide circular area of the sky, [l] [215] the related phenomenon of occultation occurs when a bright star or planet passes behind the Moon and is occulted: hidden from view. In this way, a solar eclipse is an occultation of the Sun.
Humans and other animals have orbited or circled the Moon without landing. These include tortoises on Zond 5 (September 1968), Zond 6 (November 1968), and Zond 7 (August 1969), fruit flies on Zond 5, and five mice, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, who traveled in the 1972 Apollo 17 Command Module America and, along with astronaut Ronald Evans ...
Dylan Stableford. February 22, 2024 at 7:08 PM. An unmanned, robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company landed on the moon Thursday evening. “We can confirm, without a doubt, that ...
Chandrayaan-3 ( / ˌtʃʌndrəˈjɑːn / CHUN-drə-YAHN) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). [ 11] The mission consists of a Vikram lunar lander and a Pragyan lunar rover was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 14 July 2023.
Statio Shiv Shakti or Shiv Shakti Point is the landing site of Chandrayaan-3, the third lunar mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan landed 600 km from the south pole of the Moon on 23 August 2023. [2] [3] [4] The landing site was named on 26 August 2023 at the ISTRAC headquarters in ...
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time. [1] [2] A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.
Luna 26 →. Luna 25 (or Luna-25; Russian: Луна-25) was a failed Russian lunar lander mission by Roscosmos [ 7] in August 2023 that planned to land near the lunar south pole, in the vicinity of the crater Boguslawsky. [ 8] Initially called the Luna-Glob lander ( Russian: Луна-Глоб ), it was renamed Luna 25 to emphasize continuity ...